Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947
Poems Written as Metrical Experiments

O Life, thy breath is but a cry

O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light

Immortal, whence has come thy swift delight¹,

Thy grasp.

All things in vain thy hands seize;

Earth’s music fails, the notes cease

Or rasp.

Aloud thou callst² to blind Fate,

“Remove the bar, the gold gate

Unhasp.”

But never hast³ thou the goal yet of⁴ thy race

Neared⁵, nor thrilled with⁶ the ineffable Face,

The⁷ clasp.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.

¹ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: out of which has sprung thy delight

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: call’st

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³ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: never yet hast

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⁴ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: goal of

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⁵ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: Attained

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⁶ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: to

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⁷ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: And

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